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Dirty looks or fake coughing

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Mr Gone

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How many times have you been smoking a stogie in public and had sombody walk by with a coment, dirty look or fake coughing?

I have had more than my share. I try and stay away from most people when In public but they happen to walk by and you know the rest of the story.

Anyone have any stories or coments?
 
As long as you don't light up next to the lady nursing her baby, the group of yuppies dining al fresco, or the old geezer practicing calisthenics, I would return any dirty looks with my own, offer Hall's cough drops to those fake coughing, and ignoring rude comments.

Seriously, tho, if we, as cigar smokers, as well as cigarette smokers, are considerate in choice of area to smoke, the rest of the public should exercise equal consideration towards us. Until smoking a cigar outdoors is made illegal I will continue to smoke without shame or embarrassment. They can wrest the cigar and cutter from my cold stiff fingers before I put out a good cigar because someone thinks it's "stinky".
 
One night before babysitting for my sister-in-law I smoked outside in the driveway away from the house. She came out and gave the fake cough and a nasty look.
I replied with "Damn,, if your sick you should stay the hell home and I'll leave,,, I don't wanna catch anything." dead silence.

I also like to smoke at outdoor events and festivals, you know food vendors grills and everything. Someplace where you wil be milling about for hours. Hundreds of cigarettes being smoked, but let one redneck in Carhartts and a Vols hat light up a big ol' 50 gauge (i always pick a big one) and everybody looks like their smellin' raw onions....... I feel so misunderstood
 
Beefcube said:
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I also like to smoke at outdoor events and festivals, you know food vendors grills and everything. Someplace where you wil be milling about for hours. Hundreds of cigarettes being smoked, but let one redneck in Carhartts and a Vols hat light up a big ol' 50 gauge (i always pick a big one) and everybody looks like their smellin' raw onions....... I feel so misunderstood
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Ahhh... but are you misunderstood because you are smoking a stogie, or because you are a big old redneck? ... ;)
 
Well, with the fake coughing, I prefer to be exremely sympathetic, offering to do whatever I can to alleviate their unfortunate condition until they feel so uncomfortable about the sudden unexpected attention that they pretend they really did have a bad cough, but they're all better now.

With the dirty look people, I usually respond with a "Oh, I'm sorry! How rude of me not to offer you any! Would you like a drag?"
 
I was at Starbucks coffee in Long Beach Ca. I made sure I was far enough from anyone eating something or from big partys of people. I wanted to enjoy a nice big Fuente. So I light up and begin to enjoy my smoke. Then this couple decides to come over next to me when there are plenty of other seats further away. This chick starts coughing and gaging like she was in a burning building. She gives me a quick dirty look and muttered something. I just ignored them but this lady would not stop with the fake coughing. It was really starting to piss me off. I was about to say something when my friend who I was meeting there showed up and sat down. I told him of the situation and he just laughed as he lit up a Punch. They just got up and walked off. We had a good laugh.
 
Woot! Way to go! I would have loved to have seen the look on that lady's face. :thumbs:
 
I smoke lots of cigars BUT 99% of the time I'm in my car. In Connecticut, you can no longer smoke in bars or restaurants so I'm almost never smoking cigars around people who would pull that crap.

I was smoking a cigar at a car show OUTSIDE last year and a guy literally 50 feet away from me starts making wise comments about my cigar :0 He was a friend from my car club and wasn't "nasty" but he was making it kinda clear to me that he didn't like smelling it :laugh:
 
Screw it. Most of the time the people you offend you won't ever see again anyway.
 
coventrycat86 said:
I was smoking a cigar at a car show OUTSIDE last year and a guy literally 50 feet away from me starts making wise comments about my cigar :0 He was a friend from my car club and wasn't "nasty" but he was making it kinda clear to me that he didn't like smelling it :laugh:
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So, it's okay to drive a car to get to the car show and spew out exhaust but not to burn leaves? If we all start using bicycles I might stop smoking cigars.

I had the opposite experience last night, and this sort of thing has happened a few times. I was having a wonderful smoke last night, CAO Brazillia, and reading a great book at Schlesingers and a nice woman walked up and said, "I hope you don't mind if I stand here a minute. My dad used to smoke cigars and every time I smell one it reminds me of him." Nice moment.
 
Beefcube said:
Hundreds of cigarettes being smoked, but let one redneck in Carhartts and a Vols hat light up a big ol' 50 gauge (i always pick a big one) and everybody looks like their smellin' raw onions....... I feel so misunderstood
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It's not the cigar Beef, it's the Big orange T on your head that is so offensive!!!
 
I was smoking a cigar OUTSIDE on a New York city STREET the other day and jackass walks up behind me with the fake coughing and comments about how my cigar stinks (BTW...it was an Opus so how could that stink anyway). I try to ignore the jackass but he actually comes up alongside me to complain about how he finds it "stinky" (no, he was not a 3 year old). Again, I try to ignore the ass as we continue to walk down the street, finally on the 3rd "stinky comment I tell him to go srcrew, which he finds insulting. He then begins to tell me he is allergic. Please. The ass is outside, walking down a NYC street filled with exhaust and he is worried about my stick, not to mention the fact that instead of staying reight beside me to continue to complain, he could have walked off and ended the problem for himself. I tolf him that if he's allergic he should go inside any establishment since I can no longer smoke inside. F!@#$er. :angry:
 
Last night my friend and I smoked cigars at the company x-mas party right under the no smoking sign and nobody said anything. On the drive though, my kids were doing the coughing and waving the hands, sticking heads out the window etc.
 
I was at the County Fair enjoying an Arturo Fuente Hemmingway Masterpiece which was one of 3 I had purchased at the fair.
After shareing with my two B/inlaws we went our seperate ways enjoying the sights, the great weather we were haveing in oct. and how great it was to be smoking a cigar in an open enviroment, when low and behold I hear the faint whisper of the antismoker whimperus assholeis. " Lets get outta here Timmy that bad man is smoking an icky cigar !" as the rude bastard try's to blind side me with a babycarrige dragging his 2.5 children along behind them.
So being the nice guy I was I called the B/inlaws on cellphone and told him about this whimp and how much he enjoyed cigar smokers and what general direction he was headding and how much he would probably enjoy there company in his prescence. we musta followed him around :cool: for an hour or so the whole time enjoying a fine cigar
 
Good call, Rosey! :laugh:

I was in an Irish Pub, outside due to the desire to smoke a cigar before dinner, and everything was going well. The wind was even in my favor. After dinner, I fired back up and the table behind me cleared out. A new couple came in and immediately began to cough. I turned around, looked in their direction and took another big hit. She coughed again and then got up and went inside.

Hey, I was there first and I was OUTSIDE for pete's sake. You can only do so much. :(

Floyd T. :whistling:
 
I'm 6'7", 225. Not allot of comments are made in earshot and I don't care if they are.
 
I'm sitting at a stop light, in my truck, when a lady pulls up next to me in a convertable. She looks over and see me bellowing smoke out of my window and she honks. She says, "do you have to blow the smoke right into my car?" I start to chuckle.........I look back at her as I take another draw and exhale......."did you have to pull that overpriced eurotrash poptop up next to me?".

She got all pissy, blew the stop light, by making a right turn from the left lane next to me, trying to get away from my evil smoke...............and quickly got pulled over by a motorcycle cop that was across the intersection. I drove by veerrrrryyy slow, belted a huge cloud of smoke out the passenger window and laughed. I could see the motor cop smiling and looking at me driving away as he was getting her vitals.

Sometimes, the sun even shines on a dog's ass :cool:

M. Gipson
 
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